Status Updates From Velvet and Topaz

She wore heels and a skirt to a meeting on a boat moored on the Thames, then refused hero's assistance getting ON the boat. What do you think happened? DNF

So the next issue is her total disregard for her BFF's (traveling companion) (who paid for the trip) wishes in the interest of being an American butting into a foreign country's issues like, "Stand aside now. The Big Bad American will solve all your problems." I may DNF if it gets much more ridiculous.

The heroine's activism has no foundation before she goes apeshit in a foreign country. I might have believed it if there had been more time setting this facet of her character instead of going straight for the stranger sex. So now I'm frustrated with it because I have no frame of reference for this.